Various Other Quotes, etc… September 7, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration, smiling is good for you , 2commentsToday I was eating lunch and ended up alone due to having gone back for ice cream. (It was a long line.) Alli was a few tables away, talking to two other Dag people (Rachel maybe? And Adam.) She saw me and waved and began this complex motion thing that I just sat there gawking at, trying to figure out what on earth she was talking about. Finally I figured out that she was complimenting my having gotten ice cream. So we motioned back and forth for a minute. Finally Adam took matters into his own hands, pointed at me, and pointed at the table where Alli was sitting. I moved. I like sitting with them anyway and it was ridiculous to be trying to carry on a conversation in non-sign language across the dining hall.
Adam began arguing about the pronunciation of a word. Alli rolled her eyes and said to me, “We have figured out that Adam can be wrong. It just takes a long time for him to come to this conclusion and admit it.”
“I know,” I said. “He gave me a headshot yesterday.”
Alli’s jaw dropped. “And he was RIGHT???” she demanded.
“Well, he was fighting with one hand.”
“And that was his EXCUSE??? ADAM!”
Adam meanwhile had completely missed our conversation and had no idea what he was being scolded for.
Pastor Micah was trying to get it through my head yesterday that it is a good strategy for me NOT to try to block Adam’s blows unless I cannot simply move out of his range. Just because it is nice to have my wrists in one piece. The day before, though, Kevin had been working on teaching me blocking, so I need to get straightened out in my head when to and when not to block.
Let’s see, what else of interest has been happening? My group is getting ready for the Creation Debate. We were assigned the side of defending the Literary Framework position. So yesterday we had a meeting to try to get a bit of organization going. I think that Josh and I ended up more or less in charge by virtue of being awake at 8:30 on a Saturday morning. Perhaps it had more to do with having a pen and paper than being awake. Oh well. This could be fun. And even if it’s a disaster, our team only has to cover 20 minutes.
Last night *cough* very early this morning, I was talking to Samuel R. He had been searching himself on google and was most amused with the results. I don’t even remember what all we talked about… bit random. He was trying to talk me into visiting his church, which I probably will do soon. (It could be hard to avoid, when I play Dag with the pastor from that church.) Anyway, Samuel for some reason thinks that I’m several years older than I am. I searched myself on google and found that I was born in 1741. Huh. I’m not THAT old.
A couple of things on facebook have been amusing me recently. One is a group called “I am definitely voting for Sarah Palin, and old what’s his name”. Another is various things from a group called There Are Some Things Guys Should Always Do For Girls. Period.
~5. Talk! The strong & silent bit goes from intriguing to boring quite fast. (This reminds me, the other day Jason said, “It seems that the better people get to know me, the less intriguing I am.”)
~26. It’s not stalking to watch her sleep if you fall asleep watching a movie. It is stalking to watch her sleep if you’re standing outside her window with night vision goggles.
~29. Just because you’re a guy doesn’t mean you are completely incapable of calling when you say you will, it just means you are highly incapable of it. There are few acceptable answers to, “Why didn’t you call?”, & being male is not one of them.
~36. If any lady is walking alone to her car in a dark parking lot/garage, or is carrying a heavy load, always offer to help walk her to her destination and carry things, if not the entire load. **This may work a lot better and come off non-stalkerish if you at least know the girl you’re trying to help. Haha thanks to a LOT of people on this revision.** (I burst out laughing on this one. Wow. Yeah. There are a few guys on campus who do follow girls around. We discussed making a wall in our hall with their pictures and NO signs over them.)
Oh yes, on Friday night I was talking with Tony and Jordan and Noah (philosophy guys) and Noah and I kept using the excuse that we were homeschooled as reasons why we didn’t know something. Finally, I replied to something (such as had I seen a certain movie) with, “Of course not, I was homeschooled, I was chained to a wall in the basement!” This resulted in one of those times when there was great danger of Tony choking from laughing so hard… and Jordan… oops.
Anyway. Fun times.
September 4, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , 1 comment so farOne thing I love about college is having so many people to talk to. It can be a bit of a pain when I’m trying to study, but overall it’s fantastic. The weather had been beautiful, too, so I keep bringing my homework outside to do and to talk to whoever comes and wants to stand around or sit down and talk. Or sit there and work. Today during philosophy class, I was scribbling notes and Jesse (sitting next to me) grabbed them. Then I stole them back, finished what I wanted to write for the time being, and handed it back to Jesse. He wrote his thoughts on the back. I was going to write back, but I wanted us to finish hearing the lecture and I was pretty sure that he didn’t have any classes immediately after philosophy, so I wrote a two-word note instead.Lunch next?He nodded.A few minutes later, Keith (who was on my other side), wrote me a note. “Do you have a class after this or can you do lunch?”The three of us went and had lunch and talked and scribbled things on paper and argued and talked some more. I think we all felt better when lunch was over. 
Some conversations are downright amusing, too. Noah (I had lunch with him and Courtney this morning before we headed to our 8 o’clock Bible class) got involved in a discussion on the Greek gods the other day. That is, Nathan and I were discussing Greek gods.Noah: “I go to a Greek church.”We looked at him and all three of us laughed, having no clue where the connection had been, aside from GREEK gods and the Eastern Orthodox church. So Nate and I checked to make sure that the Eastern Orthodox church does not promote worship of the Greek gods.By the way, if all the names are throwing you, don’t feel bad. Martha (a girl on my floor) has been complaining that I tell her stories about people and use their names as if she ought to know them. Maybe she ought to, but I don’t expect you all to learn everyone on campus’ name. Martha teases me all the time about being strange. Basically the night she met me I was looking up at the stars, and I was spinning around in circles to get a better view. Apparently it looked rather odd. Oh well. I’m quite willing to look odd to make friends.Anyway, I should cease from my random-ish stories and return to homework. Hopefully Katie has discovered what it is that we are supposed to be doing for English homework anyway…Have a great day!
Randomness September 2, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration, smiling is good for you , 2commentsGood news. Aaron fixed my internet yesterday. The moral of this story is that neat handwriting really is important. See, what happened was that someone wrote a 0 which looked like a D, but the computer reads them completely differently.
Anyway, yes, Aaron figured that out while I stood around in tech being generally unhelpful and talking to Marlin.
Marlin: “You shouldn’t have problems! It’s a mac!”
Thank you.
I got to meet the wives of the guys in my Greek class. That was fun. My Greek class basically is amazing. Actually, ALL of my classes are amazing, which is… well, I’d better not say amazing again. 
I am enjoying them all; not necessarily all of the homework, but the classes and the out-of-class discussion. I just came back from Bible class, which, unfortunately, is an 8 o’clock class. Maybe they do that on purpose though — the discussion is quite lively enough at that hour. For the most part.
I’m in a group for discussion the whole semester with Katie, Chris, and Zane. That makes two OPC kids, one PCA, and one Assembly of God. Could be interesting. We’re also all in the same group for the Genesis debate, which is fun, especially since it was not designed to be so by Dr. S.
Anyway, a not-so-lucid moment.
“I’m zaned out. Zoned out.” ~ Katie, having been looking at Zane’s nametag.
We made Zane’s day by informing him that it is our GROUP that has to do a 20-minute presentation, not each member of our group. The Bible class was also having some difficulties with scheduling. Keith pointed out that it showed that we were supposed to be in class when we were on Thanksgiving break.
Dr. S: “I expect you to come back early from Thanksgiving break for class.”
Keith: “We can do that.”
Dr. S: “With an attitude like that, you’re going to be awfully lonely.”
Ah yes… some other quotes I wrote down…
[In Hebrew class]
Dr. C’s insult: “You sorry diphthong.” (His disclaimer: “Don’t call anyone that… please… or if you do, don’t blame me.”)
“Don’t worry about the vocabulary, don’t write it down; please don’t.” ~ Dr. C, and it amused me for some reason.
[In Greek class]
Dr. W: “Um… Tony?”
Tony: “Yeah?”
Dr. W: “You know the other night… when you were almost run over… what was that… Friday? By a little red car?”
Tony: “Oh, yeah.”
Dr. W: *cough* “That was me, I’m really sorry about that.”
As if there aren’t few enough Biblical Language majors anyway! He really should not run over Tony!
Dr. W: *illustrating the gnomic present* “Tony lifts weights.”
Josh: [who, I think, is Tony’s roommate] *snicker*
Tony: “Shut up.”
Dr. W: “Has he been slacking off lately? Not lifting weights?”
Josh: “…Halo weights.”
One of the guys, trying to translate a rather tricky word (i.e., we don’t have an English equivalent). “Remain it!”
After Dr. W explaining a particularly nasty concept: “I need to marinate in that.” ~ Jeff.
[in Dagorhir]
Jason: *kneels down* *winces*
me: “Are you okay?”
Jason: “These [armour on his legs] need broken in. They’re cutting into my ankles. But I don’t feel like taking them off. Let’s play.”
Rachel: “Dag is one of those things where people get hit in the head and never say, Oh, I’m going to go sit out for a few minutes. They always say, Oh, I’m fine, let’s finish this game and then I’ll see how I’m doing.”
me: “Samwise, I love your shirt.” (It was this shirt, from Abort73.) A few minutes later, I realized… “You know, though, it is a bit of an odd shirt to wear to Dag.”
On Sunday I ended up in the guys’ dorm. (Honestly, it didn’t smell that bad, which is the main report I’d heard.) They were showing me rocks on the roof and various youtube videos. Doug played the accordion for us. Noah found the Went With the Wind videos (Part I… Part II) on youtube and he and I laughed about them. Doug and Nathan were fortunate enough never to have seen Gone With the Wind, so they had no idea what we were laughing at. Doug showed us videos from Brainiacs of cars blowing up etc. I asked something along the lines of, “Uh… why am I in here again?”
Nathan: “No one asked you to come.” *thinks about this* “Well, actually…”
me: “Yeah, I think that you did.”
And then I went back to the girls’ dorm and hung out in Bonnie and Katie’s room. Then we had dinner and evening church (it is REALLY nice to see some little kids again!!!) and then a bunch of us went over to the pastor’s house. We had a psalm sing, talked about weird dreams, watched people bash their heads against the light… good times.
Samuel: “He’s an idiot.”
Josh: “He’s actually a really nice kid.”
Samuel: “Oh, he is a really nice kid, but he’s also an idiot.”
Josh: “Samuel, ALL of your friends are idiots.”
Samuel: *looks over at me*
me: *backs up* “Samuel, sorry, but I don’t think I’m your friend any more!”
Samuel: “I was just going to say that you’re the exception to the rule!”
Josh: “You’re not very loyal!”
me: “I only met him once before! And okay, I am your friend.”
me: *throws a gummy bear at Samuel*
Samuel: “It would have helped if you had warned me.”
me: “You were looking at it!”
Samuel: “Try again.”
me: *does so*
Samuel: “It would have helped if you had thrown it somewhere near my mouth.”
Well, yeah.
Emma: “I’ve had dreams several times about being a serial killer.”
Keith and I: *look at each other*
me: “Keith, I apologize for introducing you to Emma.”
Anyway, I’d better head over to philosophy class and work on my Hebrew. (Unlike Greek, I didn’t do several days worth of homework for Hebrew. Yisrael did, though. He thought that we were having a quiz yesterday when it is in fact on Wednesday, so there was a moment of panic before class the other day, and we got him straightened out. As a side note, it is amusing… there are a bunch of people from my Hebrew class who I know better by their Hebrew than regular names.)
One last quote:Yesterday in L&T, Ket was trying to get the guys to be quiet. “Saggi! Toma! Max!”
Max needs a Hebrew name.
Update on Life August 28, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration, smiling is good for you , 2comments*cough* Exactly how am I supposed to get my computer to go online when, in order to do so, I need to download a program from online to make it go online… oh man… logic at its highest level, eh?
In other news.
Courtney and I were greatly amused while studying our Bible stuff last night. We were laying on the floor in her room writing away, and my brain apparently had shut down. I looked over at what she was working on. “You know,” I said, helpfully. “Part of the reason it’s taking you so much longer is because you’re writing so much more… small…ly… than I am.”
Courtney: *dying laughing* “The way you said small….ly… oh my….”
Then later I was studying with Martha. That is, we were… supposedly… studying. But then we started laughing. And then things kinda went downhill from there. We had a great time, though.
Tonight Jackie (Courtney’s sister) and I were studying Greek. Dr. W gave us 53 verses to parse between class Wednesday and class Friday. In case it doesn’t sound like a lot, it is. Anyway. There was some particularly pernicious looking verb and I was sort of staring at it.
Jackie: “Is it a… aorist…”
me: “Uh…”
Jackie: “Subjunctive….”
me: “Uh…”
Jackie: *cracking up* “Passive?”
us: *laughing*
Jackie: “Does such a thing EXIST??? Aorist subjunctive passive?”
me: “Was that ENGLISH???”
*we laugh about this and muddle onwards*
…a few minutes later…
me: “It does look like a subjunctive for sure.” *looks a bit more* “Passive subjunctive.”
Jackie: “Really????”
me: “Uh… it’s an aorist subjunctive passive.”
We’re hoping that Dr. W interrogates her on that particular verb. It was fun. And yes, I know, we’re nerds.
Another random quote:
Some of the people were introducing themselves yesterday. They were supposed to say their names and something cool about themselves.
“My name is Barnabas, and that is pretty much the cool thing about me.”
Barn and I ended up comparing shoe sizes at dinner last night, too. He thought that it was girls’ shoe sizes which ran two or so sizes bigger than guys and that thus our feet were the same size.
It’s really hard to actually get your feet flat against the feet of someone sitting across the table from you.
It also leads to people giving you really odd looks.
My Greek class got into an extended discussion on Wal*Mart the other day. We were supposed to be coming up with the verb “martano”, and none of us could think of it. We tried “marteo”, “marte-eh-o”, “marteomai”…
“Close, very close,” Dr. W kept saying.
Finally Tony gave up on it. “K-mart?”
“Wal*Mart?”
We started making Wal*Mart into a Greek verb for I shop.
“Walmartomen” ~ We are shopping.
“Wawalmartokmen”~ We have shopped.
Dr. W: “I saw this fascinating show the other day [a few minutes where he classified “fascinating”] and apparently the average number of types of items in a Wal*Mart is 100,000.”
everyone: “Wow.”
the four guys in the class: *go on and on and on*
us: *cough* “Greek…”
Dr. W: “Oh yes. Anyway.”
Tony: “Wait! I have to tell you all something!!!”
It’s an awfully social class.
I also got my assignment for the Creation debate. Literary framework.
Bleh.
Where is Antion when I could really use him…?
Oh well. It’s gonna be good.
And, Ket, in case you’re reading this, I killed Jason yesterday. I was so proud of myself. It made playing in the rather chilly rain quite worth it.
August 26, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , add a commentToday I had an 8 o’clock Bible class, and then my philosophy class later on. They look like good classes. It is SO lovely to have so many other OPC kids around. And if they aren’t OPC, a lot of them are RPCNA or PCA… ahhh.
This led to a rather amusing conversation at dinner tonight. (And the food seriously is not bad. Some of it’s not great, but there are plenty of options.)
Ally and I were talking about something or another, like how many OP and RP kids there are, etc, etc, etc.
Nicole (who I had gone to dinner with — she’s on my floor): *stares at us* “WHAT are you talking about? I’m completely lost! With all these RP’s and OP’s and P’s…”
Rachel (who had joined us for dinner, as had Lacey and Ally): “THANK YOU!”
Ally: *choking and laughing*
me: *laughing*
Ally: *explains the whole RPCNA-OPC-PCA-PCUSA deal without coming up for air*
everyone: “Uhh… thanks?”
I found it extremely amusing… obviously… and I think that Ally did too. I told them that I think they’ll get it.
This morning I got to talk between classes with Sarah (who I know from the Reformation service) and Samwise for a while… mostly just random talking, but it was nice.
Tonight I’m planning to go play cards with Rachel and Lacey for a while, and then there is a worship thing. But I need to find out where it is.
And then… bed? Who knows? It seems like a bunch of girls in my hall get more talkative at night, so we may hang out for a while talking. And then my first class tomorrow is at 10:10.
Hurray!
Hello again August 25, 2008
Posted by Anya in : Uncategorized , 1 comment so farOnce again, my apologies for the sparseness in posting. I’m busy, and my internet’s not working yet. (But I do have my computer back. But I think I’ll have to go give it back to Aaron… and… er… can’t think of the other guy’s name… in Tech tomorrow. And maybe they can make it work.)
Anyway. My first classes were today. So it went something like this. Wake up, breakfast, library to take a survey which was due today. The survey was now totally not working, as opposed to the other day when it was only mostly not working. David and Ben (who are mostly in charge of my L&T class) understood this and cancelled that assignment. ^_^ My L&T class, Hebrew, Greek. Dr. W let us out early. Thus I was actually able to go get lunch!!!! Hurray! Then English. Then Dagorhir. I don’t know if I actually did improve since Saturday, but I felt better. Maybe because I killed Jason and then Marlin and I managed to pull off a win at capture the flag.
Random quotes from Dag:
Marlin: “I am going to get a drink and a puff from my inhaler.”
Jason: “I’m a communications major and it’s nice to meet you. Do you mind if I kill you now?” *charges*
me: “What time do we go till? Five?”
Steve: “You can leave now, but I’d be sad.”
me: “I’d prefer for you to be sad rather than my Hebrew and Greek and English professors.”
Marlin: “Why???”
me: “Homework…”
Marlin: “Look. It’s a Monday Wednesday Friday class. So you can do the homework TOMORROW! And play now!”
me: O_o “I have more classes tomorrow!”
Marlin: “And????”
me: “And I’m taking Hebrew, which I need to study every day.”
Marlin: “Oh. Good point.”
Jason: *slams me in the face with some long type of weapon*
me: “OW.”
Jason: “Oh my gracious. I am so sorry. Are you okay?”
I was fine, of course, and highly amused by the oddity of apologizing to people who you’re trying to kill.
We also had someone (Micah) who had lost all his limbs and was then rolling around trying to grab our flag with his teeth. This unfortunately let to my task of standing there and blocking his head from our flag. Talk about determination. He was so determined that Steve (the herald and rather in charge) restored him to life. Sigh.
Playing a Monarch round (where someone is the King and can heal the injured — or dead).
Marlin: “She’s our King!”
me: “Marlin, that sounded really wrong.”
Kevin: *kills me* “You were really scaring me, following me around like that!”
me: “That’s all I have to do to scare him? Follow him around???”
The girl I was fighting with (I obviously can’t think of her name…): *kills me* “Here, now go fight.”
Jason: *running at me with his beast of a long weapon* “QUIT RUNNING FROM ME!!!”
Oh yeah. Sure. You stop running at me first.
A Bit of Randomness from College August 21, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , 3commentsFirstly, to anyone who is unhappy because my computer access is rather… random… I should hopefully be getting my computer back on Monday. I apologize in the meantime.
I’m currently down in the media center of the library, which is a GREAT place… problem is, I’m having so much fun talking to the other people down here that it’s rather distracting!
This afternoon I ate lunch across from a guy who looked awfully familiar.
“Hi,” I said. “I think that I’ve met you and should probably know your name. I’m Anya.”
He gave me a somewhat odd look. “I’m Don.”
Oh?
“I think I ate breakfast with you yesterday.”
Oh. Yeah.
Episode V of Star Wars is going down here.
Luke: “My sister is… Leia…???”
me: “How observant.”
other girl working down here (I don’t remember her name, but I know it’s NOT Becca): “YES! I mean… the only other girl on the show!!!!”
^_^
Off to College August 18, 2008
Posted by Anya in : I won't keep things purposely vague , 2commentsI wrote this almost a year ago for the dear people at NMSQT. They had asked for some kind of answer to what sets us apart, what our goals were, what qualified us to be national merit scholars. My answer seemed like an appropriate thing to post the night before I go to college.
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The thing that “sets me apart” is that I am a Christian. Outside of that, I have nothing. Sure, I have skill with languages and I enjoy thinking about answers to hard questions; I have fun debating and trying to make the many pieces of life connect, but without what I believe, all those talents and interests would be utterly worthless. Life without purpose is meaningless, and only what a person believes determines what their goals in life will be.
Because my goal is to glorify God in everything that I do, in everything that I am, I know that I have a responsibility to develop the talents He has given me. That, in my case, means using my classical education as a jumping point for the subjects that I want to continue to study in college.
Over several years I have done an in-depth study of literature, theology, and history from ancient to modern times. That has equipped me to learn more about philosophy. Also, I have an abiding interest in the subject! I believe that there is absolute truth, because nothing else makes sense.
The classical education has also been beneficial when coupled with my love for language in general, and for foreign languages in specific. From second to eleventh grade, I studied Latin. Although its own uses are rather limited given its status as a dead language, it is a good base for learning foreign languages, and it was enormously helpful both in learning Greek (another declined language) and Spanish (another Romance language). I enjoy learning other languages, because words are incredibly important. From the serpent’s lies to Eve in the garden to political campaigning, words are influential and I don’t see how anyone can honestly believe that what you say does not matter or that it does not truly affect life.
These are my basic reasons for wanting to study philosophy and various languages – they go together, especially in the realm of bringing all thoughts captive to Christ. The right ideas are the fixed point, the right words are the lever; put together, they can move the world.
And now, you may ask, what exactly do I anticipate doing with those things, with that knowledge, with my life? It’s a good question, and I myself wonder about the answer quite a bit! The truth is that I hope to get married and have children. That would not be a waste of all that I’ve learned; rather, it would be the fulfillment. All the knowledge in the world is useless if it is not passed along, and the way to best impact the world is to impact lives, one at a time.
My purpose in life is, as I stated before, to glorify God. Ultimately, what I want to do is whatever will most loudly shout forth His greatness. That is my goal, my dream, and that is what I will be pressing towards throughout college and then, throughout the rest of my life.
Soli Deo Gloria.
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Hopefully, I’ll still be blogging a fair amount at college. Thank you all for reading.
And for everyone who followed the White Rabbit…
*GRINS*
Warning August 17, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , 6commentsLook at this. I’m posting (on the 17th) about my birthday (which is on the 18th). I’ve been yelled at in the past for not giving people any advance warning. I can’t believe that I’m going to be 18. And yes, I need to pack for college. And yes, I need to finish moving my pictures onto a DVD from the other computer. And I’m sure that there are a bunch of other things that I need to do… But right now I’m not too concerned about it. I am working on another post, but I’d hate to get killed right before I go to college for the simple reason of neglecting to warn you all. Goodnight.
Various Ramblings. August 15, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , 5comments |
Currently ListeningMuch Afraid By Jars of Clay Portrait of an Apology/Truce |
Today I was working on transferring some old pictures to this new computer and… well… it was kind of fun. Rather old pictures from my first year of quizzing. They brought back a lot of memories. Things like, “Brittany quizzed??? I didn’t remember that!” and “Oh NO, I remember the day that they wore that…” and “Oh wow! What do you know! I still remember the answer to this question!!!”
And then I cracked up. There was a video from the last quiz of that very last year. And I apparently needed three questions to quiz out, and got 18 and 19. Griffin, very encouragingly, said, “Get number 20 now!!”
The quizmaster, very discouragingly, said, “Question number 20 is a quote.”
Griffin: “Oh.”
Yes, that pretty much covered it.
But I just laughed today.It was weird, too, seeing people in the pictures and the videos and thinking, “Huh, that was before we were friends…” or “Oh, I wonder how she’s doing…”
In other news, Dad and I went on a bike ride today. Lovely weather for it! But it’s incredible how much longer the ride home seems than the ride away from home.
Mom says that I should post about Taliesin, but I’m not really sure what to post…I can’t believe that I’m going to college on Tuesday. I can’t believe that my friends are going off to college. We’re too young; this is something that happens to older kids… And then it sinks in, Oh my, I AM an older kid.
This being rather like when Madeline and I realized that WE were the oldest kids in the room and ought, perhaps, to be acting with maturity… yeah. Crazy, isn’t it?
Various other people have told me how crazy it seems to them for me to be going to college, yet I feel pretty safe in saying that it can hardly be as odd for them as it is for me.
And finally, stolen from diehardcubsfans.blogspot.com… (I’ve read more of them than six.)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (read)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (read)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (read)
6 The Bible (read)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (read)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I may have read this… but I don’t think so.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (read)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (read)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (read)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (Unfortunately.)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (Also unfortunately, I’m surprised that I didn’t die of boredom.)21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (bleh)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (read, of course. Or memorized.)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Thanks to Peter and Andune and my honors class, but it was good!)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I probably did read this, but I’m not positive.)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (read)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (read)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (read)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (read)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Not sure why this isn’t included in no. 33, but…)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (Um… I’m pretty sure I read that)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (read)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (read)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (read, and very worth reading)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (read)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (read)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Oh yes. And refer to it quite often.)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (read)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Again, Andune…)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Oh gracious, no. I started it, and fortunately, did NOT have to finish it.)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (Hooray for Abby!)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (read)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (read)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (read)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (read)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (read)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (read)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (read)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (My apologies, Peter… I haven’t read this one. Yet.)
Goodnight, world.
